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Hi all, I'm very new to Nagios.

I need a way to monitor my systems Main memory usage. How Can i do that?

Say for example I need to get notified if :

My main memory > 80% for 15 minutes

Thanks in advance.

What type of Host do you intend to monitor, Linux, AIX, Windows...etc?

For instance for a Windows server you could install the NSClient++ agent on the Host side, then configure Nagios Core to run a check to it.

If you were to search "memory" in this document the second search will show you an example of how the Nagios side would be configured:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore-3-en.pdf

Thanks for the reply.

But how do I specify the timing constraint? In my case I need to do :
Where do I specify the "15" minutes timing constraints?

What type of Host do you intend to monitor, Linux, AIX, Windows...etc?

Monitoring different types of hosts will require different steps to get main memory.